The Research On The Relationship Between The Prisoners’ Criminal Motives And Ex Post Facto Attribution Way

The study took the prisoners as objects and made a questionnaire on the prisoners’ criminal motives to investigate their criminal motives. The paper tried to enrich the measurement tools and theoretical research on the criminal motives. At the same time, the paper investigated and analyzed the relationship between the prisoners’ criminal motives and attribution way to provide measurement tools and theoretical basis for the prison system to understand the prisoners’ criminal motives and give some suggestions for better transformation of prisoners and prevention of re-offending. The results indicated as follows:(1) The questionnaire on the prisoners’ criminal motives was divided into four dimensions:internal cause, external inducement, self-regulation and behavior habits. The questionnaire had good reliability and validity.(2) The study found that the prisoners’ criminal motive level of external inducement was higher, and the criminal motive level of self-regulation was low.(3) There existed significant differences between the total score of the prisoners’ criminal motive and age, type of offence, the former professional. The crime motive dimensions of "Internal cause" had significant differences with age and former professional. The crime motive dimensions of "Self-regulation" had significant differences with culture level. The crime motive dimensions of "behavior habits" had significant differences with age. The total score of the prisoners of different economic conditions on the crime motive did not have significant differences with the score of each dimension.(4) The total score of the prisoners’ criminal motive had significantly positive correlation with the total score of the prisoners’ attribution scale, and the crime motive had significant predict effect to attribution ways.(5) The crime motive of external inducement and the attribution way of internal control was significant positive correlation. The crime motive of self-regulation and the attribution way of internal control was significant negative correlation, and they both had significant predict effect to internal control attribution ways. (6) The crime motive of internal cause, external inducement, self-regulation and behavior habits all had significant positive correlation with the attribution way of powerful others, and they all had significant predict effect to the attribution way of powerful others.(7) The crime motive of external inducement, internal cause, self-regulation and behavior habits all had significant positive correlation with the attribution way of opportunity, and they all had significant predict effect to the attribution way of opportunity.